Word: formality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last formal game before some trouble brewing in Europe and the Far East called a momentary halt to the series, an under-dog Yale squad snatched a 7 to 3 win from the Crimson on a bleak rainy Saturday, scoring an upset that many present-day students still remember. Don Richards, later killed in the Normandy campaign, returned a punt 60 yards for a touchdown, only to have the score called back because of an offside penalty...
...years later the teams renewed the contests, but in an 'informal' manner. It wasn't until one year ago that formal football returned to the college scene here, and with it came a struggle that must have ranked with the best of former years, in spirit and color. Yale was the victor by a score of 27 to 14, but those figures don't tell the whole story. A first-half Crimson...
Hughes' first plans called for a formal gathering at dawn. He had even cached a stock of brandy to entertain his cutaway-adorned guests. However, the austere aspects of the London affair made a less formal gathering imperative to good taste...
...Will Pass . . ." If there was no essential agreement on Germany at Lancaster House, the Russians and everyone else knew what would follow. The U.S., British and French zones would draw closer together in an economic union. There might be no "separate peace" in the formal sense; occupation troops would remain. Western Germans would, however, get more chance to run their own affairs and to contribute to Europe's reconstruction...
Last week formal glories crowned her behind-scenes power. Opportunist George Tatarescu, who could turn his coat faster than Houdini, had outlived his usefulness to the Communists as Foreign Minister. The Communists kicked him out. On the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, on the eve of St. Michael's Day (his own "name" day), King Michael named Ana Pauker, who was not even one of his subjects, to be his Foreign Minister...